Say NO To New Formats: UMD
From Wratty @ 3/31/2006 10:22:00 AM
Yeah! We're getting like old men who just hate everything that's new and helps the world to progress. First we took on HD. Now we're going to kick UMD while its down.
UMD? Well it's the proprietary storage medium of the PSP. Games come on it, and movies come on it. The movies tend to come out at the same price as it's dvd counterpart and never really has the same amount of extras, due to its storage capacity.
Well, this morning we wake up to a different world. Edge is reporting that UMD is slowly fading away, and other sites are telling us that Universal and Paramount are the first to stop supporting the format! DOH! In six months they're already buggered. The big thing which makes you stop and think is this:
"Sony's own Home Entertainment division announcing the first cutbacks of the format"
DOH! Not even your own company likes you!
Have you bought any UMD movies? We haven't, but we still haven't bought a PSP. They should have just listened to us when we said package a UMD in with a regular movie! Why not? Is that too expensive? We don't know. Can we believe in a format like Blu Ray if we're presented with news like this? We're so confused we've decided to dig out the NES again and pretend we're back in good old 1985.
UMD? Well it's the proprietary storage medium of the PSP. Games come on it, and movies come on it. The movies tend to come out at the same price as it's dvd counterpart and never really has the same amount of extras, due to its storage capacity.
Well, this morning we wake up to a different world. Edge is reporting that UMD is slowly fading away, and other sites are telling us that Universal and Paramount are the first to stop supporting the format! DOH! In six months they're already buggered. The big thing which makes you stop and think is this:
"Sony's own Home Entertainment division announcing the first cutbacks of the format"
DOH! Not even your own company likes you!
Have you bought any UMD movies? We haven't, but we still haven't bought a PSP. They should have just listened to us when we said package a UMD in with a regular movie! Why not? Is that too expensive? We don't know. Can we believe in a format like Blu Ray if we're presented with news like this? We're so confused we've decided to dig out the NES again and pretend we're back in good old 1985.
to be fair you're right, it did seem doomed from day 1 - but it was the pricing that really shot it in the foot
i thought umd was a bit like minidisc, i remember seeing the prerecorded albums in the shops, but i never knew anyone that actually bought them.
when i was in dixons earlier some girl asked for a walkman, a WALKMAN! i think she was from the past.
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